Links to references

: Yamagata Archive

General jpn

: e-Gov Data Portal

General jpn

: Heian Literature Overseas | 海外平安文学情報

Overseas collections of Japanese Resources jpn

: Online Dictionary of the Japonic Languages

Literature and Linguistics jpn

Overseas collections of Japanese Resources eng

The Notable Japanese Collections in North America (NJC), offers an online database and visualization tool that helps identify, describe, locate, and promote rare or distinctive collections.

: 文化資源データベース

Bibliography and Digital Libraries jpn

: 在欧博物館等保管日本仏教美術資料データベース

Overseas collections of Japanese Resources eng

Japanese Buddhist Art in European Collections is a catalogue of Japanese Buddhist art in European museums, namely sculptures, paintings, manuscripts, ritual objects, textiles, and ofuda (paper amulets). This catalogue provides information and some entries also have digital images of artifacts.

: 上智大学貴重資料データベース

History jpn, eng

: 国立国会図書館デジタルコレクション

Bibliography and Digital Libraries eng

The National Diet Library (NDL) Digital Collections is the gateway for digitised images and their bibliographical information of items stored in the NDL. It covers books, periodicals, rare books and other old materials, official gazettes, newspapers, historical materials, auditory and visual materials, and special collections. While computer-readable texts are not available at this time, titles of books and sections are well documented in this database.

: 琉球･沖縄関係貴重資料デジタルアーカイブ

Bibliography and Digital Libraries jpn

: 全国遺跡報告総覧

History eng

: e国宝

Arts and Crafts eng

eKokuhou displays important holdings of four national museums: Tokyo, Kyoto, Nara and Kyushu. Displayed in high-resolution, these images are as a rule of National Treasures and Cultural Important Things, which are both official recognition for cultural properties, and consist of paintings, calligraphy, sculptures, architecture, metalwork, swords, ceramics, lacquerwares, textiles, archaeology, and historical materials. It offers a detailed description of each item.

: 新聞記事文庫: 神戸大学附属図書館デジタルアーカイブ

History jpn, eng

The Newspaper Clipping Collection contains clippings from Japanese newspapers between 1911 and 1970. Whilst its main focus is on economics and business issues, there are also clippings related to social, cultural, domestic, and international affairs

: 大津の歴史データベース

History jpn

: 所蔵資料検索

History jpn

: 古典籍総合データベース

Bibliography and Digital Libraries eng

Kotenseki Sogo Database, or the Japanese and Chinese Classics Database, is a digital library from the collection of Waseda University Library; it contains one of the largest collections of Japanese and Chinese Classics in the country. The digitised materials represent the library’s collection, which includes works from antiquity to the early modern era; materials range from literary works to historical documents. Bibliographic information and complete digitised images are provided.

: 神道基本用語集

Religious Studies eng

Basic Terms of Shinto is a glossary for essential terms, divines, and shrines. It also covers materials used in rites. It is searchable in both English and Japanese, using the Roman alphabet or kanji and hiragana form.

: コレクション

Arts and Crafts eng

: コレクション

Arts and Crafts jpn

: コレクション

Arts and Crafts eng